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From: "Duncan Heenan" <duncanhee...@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:35:43 +0100
Local: Fri 26 June 2009 08:35
Subject: Swimming costumes
It is regrettable, but typical of them, that FINA have once again crumbled
under commercial pressure from costume manufacturers and allowed all polyurethane swim suits in competition, notably the imminent World Championships. If FINA cares about the sport, rather than the industry which is taking it over, it should roll back the ever onward march of high tech equipment in to a sport which should be one person against others regardless of who can afford the best gear. The only way to even-up competition is to insist that all competitors wear identical suits, set on a world standard, preferably supplied on a random selection basis by the meet organisers to avoid cheating. As all suits would then be equal, they need not be the highest of high-tech, as everyone would be equally affected by the design. There would be outcries by those obsessed with time records, but a line would have to be drawn under all records set under the old 'any costume' rules, and new record books would have to be opened under the new rules. The consequent debate over records would be never-ending, but no worse than the current debate which accompanies records achieved with the help of each new costume gizmo. It is time FINA, and the various National Swimming bodies, started to return swimming to real people who see it as part of life, not all of it. The ever widening gap between the elite, expensively funded few and the many who swim for fitness and fun does neither the sport nor society any good. Personally, I look forward to the day when FINA and all those who pay homage to them realise, as I did many years ago, that costumes are actually unnecessary anyway; swimming is much more pleasurable, and cheaper, without one at all! -- Duncan Heenan You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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